backslidden

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v. Past participle of backslide

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Examples

I can still see the tears streaming down my father’s cheeks when I convinced him that his so-called backslidden parents, both of them Pentecostal preachers, were not being eternally tortured in the fires of hell.

There was no way she could have made it to heaven with that sort of offense on her soul, even though she and Aunt Carrie had reportedly “come back to the Lord,” as we termed it, after over twenty years of being “backslidden.”

At the bottom line, there is little if any scriptural or historically based theological support for the concept of a yawning abyss where the vast majority of humans, including all non-Christians and disobedient or backslidden ones, will be condemned, doomed, and damned for all time.

No doubt there would be some kind of altar call, and it would be necessary for him to confess his backslidden condition and give himself to Jesus, but he had done this twice before, as a teenager, and he knew it wasn't important.